Public Cloud Job Trends in England

Public Cloud
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 337 250
Rank change year-on-year -112 -87 -150
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 194 341 802
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.31% 0.83% 1.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.95% 2.15% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 87 203 690
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,250 £42,439
25th Percentile £64,439 £59,168 £56,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +9.81% +0.82%
75th Percentile £106,250 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £114,000 £128,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year - +9.81% +0.82%

All Generic Skills
England

Public Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20,378 15,828 24,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.13% 38.51% 35.83%
Number of salaries quoted 10,491 7,815 18,576
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,345 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.45% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -15.38%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Public Cloud relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in England

Public Cloud
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Public Cloud.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in England over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in England

Public Cloud
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Cloud within the England region over the 6 months to 5 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -9 103 £101,250 +20.90% 55
North of England -68 39 £77,500 +23.45% 21
West Midlands +5 19 £76,250 +8.93% 9
Midlands -8 19 £76,250 +10.09% 13
North West -33 17 £82,500 +1.23% 9
South East -45 14 £50,000 -23.08% 33
Yorkshire -62 13 £77,500 +29.17% 7
North East -10 9 £59,688 -1.51% 5
South West -30 8 £50,100 -47.06% 18
East of England +1 1 - - 8
Public Cloud
UK

Public Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (2.06%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 19 (9.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (8.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 19 (9.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (4.12%) SAP CO
2 8 (4.12%) SAP FI
2 8 (4.12%) SAP FI/CO
3 5 (2.58%) SAP GRC
4 3 (1.55%) SAP FSCM
5 2 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (1.03%) SAP ERP
5 2 (1.03%) SAP PP
5 2 (1.03%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 120 (61.86%) AWS
2 114 (58.76%) Azure
3 38 (19.59%) GCP
4 13 (6.70%) GitHub
5 12 (6.19%) Nutanix
6 11 (5.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (5.67%) SaaS
7 10 (5.15%) GitHub Copilot
7 10 (5.15%) PaaS
7 10 (5.15%) Serverless
8 9 (4.64%) Power Platform
9 7 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (3.09%) IaaS
11 4 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (2.06%) Figma
11 4 (2.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (2.06%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.06%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.70%) Firewall
2 12 (6.19%) DHCP
2 12 (6.19%) DNS
2 12 (6.19%) SD-WAN
3 11 (5.67%) HTTP
3 11 (5.67%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (4.12%) WAN
5 7 (3.61%) Network Security
6 4 (2.06%) Broadband
6 4 (2.06%) Cisco ISE
6 4 (2.06%) Ethernet
6 4 (2.06%) LAN
6 4 (2.06%) VoIP
6 4 (2.06%) VPN
7 3 (1.55%) BGP
7 3 (1.55%) EIGRP
7 3 (1.55%) OSPF
7 3 (1.55%) SSL
7 3 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.19%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.15%) Metadata
3 8 (4.12%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (3.09%) Big Data
5 5 (2.58%) Power BI
6 4 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.06%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.06%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.06%) Looker
6 4 (2.06%) MySQL
6 4 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.06%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (2.06%) Tableau
7 3 (1.55%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.55%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.55%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.03%) Informix
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (10.31%) Jenkins
2 16 (8.25%) Git
3 12 (6.19%) GitLab
4 8 (4.12%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.06%) Balsamiq
5 4 (2.06%) MLflow
6 3 (1.55%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.52%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 62 (31.96%) Finance
2 55 (28.35%) Social Skills
3 44 (22.68%) Banking
4 28 (14.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (11.34%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.67%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.09%) Retail
9 5 (2.58%) Law
9 5 (2.58%) Marketing
10 3 (1.55%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.03%) Back Office
11 2 (1.03%) International Banking
11 2 (1.03%) Legal
11 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.52%) Games
12 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (29.38%) Senior
2 51 (26.29%) Architect
3 24 (12.37%) Cloud Engineer
4 19 (9.79%) Senior Architect
5 18 (9.28%) Consultant
6 17 (8.76%) Analyst
7 14 (7.22%) Software Engineer
8 12 (6.19%) SAP Consultant
9 11 (5.67%) Infrastructure Architect
9 11 (5.67%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (5.15%) Development Engineer
10 10 (5.15%) Java Engineer
10 10 (5.15%) Lead
10 10 (5.15%) Senior Development Engineer
10 10 (5.15%) Senior Software Development Engineer
10 10 (5.15%) Software Development Engineer
10 10 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (4.64%) Azure Architect
11 9 (4.64%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (4.64%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.19%) Kafka
2 11 (5.67%) REST
3 9 (4.64%) React
3 9 (4.64%) Spring
3 9 (4.64%) Spring Boot
4 8 (4.12%) LangChain
5 5 (2.58%) RESTful
6 4 (2.06%) .NET
6 4 (2.06%) JSON
6 4 (2.06%) LangGraph
6 4 (2.06%) LlamaIndex
6 4 (2.06%) Model Context Protocol
6 4 (2.06%) pgvector
6 4 (2.06%) PyTorch
6 4 (2.06%) SAP Fiori
6 4 (2.06%) scikit-learn
6 4 (2.06%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.55%) SAP Basis
8 2 (1.03%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.03%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.43%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 22 (11.34%) Onboarding
4 21 (10.82%) Data Centre
5 15 (7.73%) Private Cloud
6 14 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (4.64%) Management Information System
9 8 (4.12%) e-Learning
10 5 (2.58%) Clustering
10 5 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.58%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 2 (1.03%) Algorithms
12 2 (1.03%) Augmented Reality
12 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.03%) FMCG
12 2 (1.03%) IoT
12 2 (1.03%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.34%) Windows
2 18 (9.28%) Linux
2 18 (9.28%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.06%) Unix
4 1 (0.52%) CentOS
4 1 (0.52%) FreeBSD
4 1 (0.52%) OpenBSD
4 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (32.47%) Mentoring
2 61 (31.44%) AI
3 53 (27.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (23.20%) CI/CD
5 42 (21.65%) Coaching
6 41 (21.13%) Agile
6 41 (21.13%) Roadmaps
7 40 (20.62%) DevOps
8 38 (19.59%) Cybersecurity
9 25 (12.89%) Architectural Design
9 25 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (12.37%) Containerisation
11 23 (11.86%) Analytics
11 23 (11.86%) Migration
11 23 (11.86%) Technical Leadership
12 22 (11.34%) Product Roadmap
13 20 (10.31%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (10.31%) Software Engineering
14 19 (9.79%) Presales
14 19 (9.79%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 46 (23.71%) Python
2 34 (17.53%) Java
3 24 (12.37%) SQL
4 11 (5.67%) PowerShell
5 7 (3.61%) C#
5 7 (3.61%) Go
5 7 (3.61%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.06%) Bicep
6 4 (2.06%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.03%) Bash
7 2 (1.03%) C
7 2 (1.03%) Perl
8 1 (0.52%) ABAP
8 1 (0.52%) COBOL
8 1 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (16.49%) AWS Certification
2 19 (9.79%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.76%) Azure Certification
4 13 (6.70%) Degree
5 11 (5.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (5.15%) SC Cleared
7 9 (4.64%) CCNP
7 9 (4.64%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (4.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.09%) CCIE
9 6 (3.09%) CISSP
9 6 (3.09%) DV Cleared
10 4 (2.06%) CISM
10 4 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (2.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.55%) CCNA
11 3 (1.55%) CISA
11 3 (1.55%) LPIC
11 3 (1.55%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.31%) SLA
2 6 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.58%) GDPR
3 5 (2.58%) GRC
4 4 (2.06%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.55%) IFRS
5 3 (1.55%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.55%) NIST
6 2 (1.03%) GAAP
6 2 (1.03%) NCSC
7 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.52%) QA
7 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (9.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (7.22%) Active Directory
3 13 (6.70%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.09%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.06%) vSphere
6 2 (1.03%) Docker
7 1 (0.52%) KVM
Systems Management
1 43 (22.16%) Terraform
2 35 (18.04%) Ansible
3 19 (9.79%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.06%) FortiGate
4 4 (2.06%) Rancher
5 2 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.03%) vRealize
6 1 (0.52%) Grafana
6 1 (0.52%) Nessus
6 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.52%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.52%) SCOM
6 1 (0.52%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.52%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 65 (33.51%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.40%) VMware
3 25 (12.89%) SAP
4 24 (12.37%) Google
5 18 (9.28%) Cisco
6 17 (8.76%) Adobe
6 17 (8.76%) Apple
7 16 (8.25%) Dell
8 14 (7.22%) HP
9 11 (5.67%) Dell Compellent
9 11 (5.67%) Nimble Storage
9 11 (5.67%) Palo Alto
10 9 (4.64%) F5
11 6 (3.09%) CheckPoint
12 5 (2.58%) Databricks
12 5 (2.58%) EMC
12 5 (2.58%) Foundry
13 4 (2.06%) Arista
13 4 (2.06%) Cloudera
13 4 (2.06%) Oracle